Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines

Veruska Zamborlini, Rinke Hoekstra, Marcos da Silveira, Cedric Pruski, Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen

2016

Abstract

This paper presents a method for formally representing Computer-Interpretable Guidelines to deal with multimorbidity. Although some approaches for merging guidelines exist, improvements are still required for combining several sources of information and coping with possibly conflicting pieces of evidence coming from clinical studies. Our main contribution is twofold: (i) we provide general models and rules for representing guidelines that expresses evidence as causation beliefs; (ii) we introduce a mechanism to exploit external medical knowledge acquired from Linked Open Data (Drugbank, Sider, DIKB) to detect potential interactions between recommendations. We apply this framework to merge three guidelines (Osteoarthritis, Diabetes, and Hypertension) in order to illustrate the capability of this approach for detecting potential conflicts between guidelines and eventually propose alternatives.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Zamborlini V., Hoekstra R., Silveira M., Pruski C., Teije A. and Harmelen F. (2016). Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines . In Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-170-0, pages 105-116. DOI: 10.5220/0005704101050116

in Bibtex Style

@conference{healthinf16,
author={Veruska Zamborlini and Rinke Hoekstra and Marcos da Silveira and Cedric Pruski and Annette ten Teije and Frank van Harmelen},
title={Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={105-116},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005704101050116},
isbn={978-989-758-170-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - Volume 5: HEALTHINF, (BIOSTEC 2016)
TI - Generalizing the Detection of Internal and External Interactions in Clinical Guidelines
SN - 978-989-758-170-0
AU - Zamborlini V.
AU - Hoekstra R.
AU - Silveira M.
AU - Pruski C.
AU - Teije A.
AU - Harmelen F.
PY - 2016
SP - 105
EP - 116
DO - 10.5220/0005704101050116